Tolerance quotations

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◆ One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

- Colleen Houck99

◆ In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali99

◆ Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

- Malcolm X99

◆ Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

- Thomas Mann99

◆ When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ ...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonid? with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

- Charles Darwin99

◆ When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

- Gene Roddenberry99

◆ Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.

- Ray Davis99

◆ In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

- Dorothy L. Sayers99

◆ Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

- Bill Maher99

◆ The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

- J.K. Rowling99